Five magical minutes a day.
Your child plays in their Speech Garden while real AI listens to every S, R and L — and turns each try into growing flowers. You see the science; they feel the magic.
Who’s practicing?
Garden · play-powered
One account. Every age. Even at once.
The interface grows up with your child — play becomes achievement becomes self-improvement — while the AI, your account, and their history stay one journey. Lisps run in families: add each child once, and a 5-year-old gets the Garden while their teenage sibling trains privately in the Studio.
Nest · 1–3
Milestones & reassurance. The AI stays quiet on purpose — no scores on toddlers.
See it →🌼Garden · 4–8
Daily play-practice with real AI listening underneath. They see magic; you see science.
See it →🧭Quest · 9–12
Missions and honest mastery scores for kids who’ve outgrown cute but still need the reps.
See it →📈Studio · 13–16
Private, fitness-grade practice for teens. It’s not too late to work on a sound.
See it →Three simple steps to clearer speech
No clinic visits to get started. SpeechStep guides your child from first assessment to daily progress.
Assess
A free, 2-minute AI screening tells you which sounds your child has mastered and which need practice.
Practice
Fun daily missions. Your child speaks, our AI listens and gives instant, encouraging feedback.
Track Progress
Watch sound-by-sound mastery climb, earn rewards, and share progress with your therapist.
Is my child on track?
Every parent Googles this. See what most children can say at each age — and what to do if they’re behind.
Master tricky sounds, one at a time
Mouth-position guides, practice words, worksheets, and AI practice for the sounds kids struggle with most.
Get answers in minutes — for free
No sign-up walls. Use our free assessments and generators to understand your child’s speech today.
Speech Milestone Checker
Answer a few questions about your child’s age and speech to get an instant development score.
Start checker →Lisp Assessment
Record your child saying a few words. Our AI estimates whether a lisp is likely and what to do next.
Try lisp check →Speech Delay Quiz
A 20-question screener that gives you a clear risk score and next-step recommendations.
Take the quiz →Speech Progress Tracker
Track sound mastery week over week and keep a record you can share with a therapist.
Open tracker →Printable Worksheets
Generate practice words, flashcards, and coloring pages for any sound and age.
Browse worksheets →Therapy Cost Calculator
See what private speech therapy could cost — and how much families save practicing at home.
Calculate savings →Word Generator
Pick an age and sound and instantly get a curated list of practice words to say at home.
Generate words →It feels like a game. It works like therapy.
Daily 15-minute missions keep kids motivated with stars, streaks, and a Speech Garden that grows every time they practice.
- ✓AI pronunciation scoring on every word
- ✓Personalized daily practice missions
- ✓Grow a Speech Garden — no coins, no gems
- ✓Parent dashboard & therapist-ready reports
Everything here can be checked
We would rather show you the sources, the method and the person behind it than tell you how much other people love it.
Grounded in published guidance
Every guide on this site cites its sources, and each source is checked before it publishes. Right now that is 767 verified citations across 73 guides, drawn from 128 distinct sources — ASHA · peer-reviewed journals · CDC · AAP · NIDCD. These counts are measured from the content at build time, not typed in by hand.
See the sources on a guide →Acoustic scoring, not guesswork
SpeechStep listens with a wav2vec2 phoneme recogniser and Goodness-of-Pronunciation scoring — the same family of methods used in pronunciation-assessment research. It is built to name what went wrong, not just hand back a number: a frontal lisp is separated from a lateral lisp by diagnosing the actual substitution in the sound, and a profile it cannot judge is declined rather than guessed at.
Try the free lisp check →Built by a parent who needed it
“SpeechStep started at my own kitchen table. Both of my children have a lisp — my teenager a slight one, my younger child a more noticeable one.” Sachin Anand is an engineer (B.Tech, IIT Kanpur, Electrical Engineering — Communications) whose work has lived in signal processing and acoustics, which is the ground SpeechStep stands on.
Read the full story →Start your child’s speech journey today
Free to start. Take the assessment in 2 minutes, then practice daily in the app. Every child takes one SpeechStep at a time.